Improvement in bodkins for passing enlarged shanks of buttons through cloth



- T P. W. GE'NGEMBRE'. BODKIN PoR PASSING BNLARGBDSHANKSOT .BUTTONSTHROUGH cLoTH.

No. 44,416. Patented Sept-27, 1864.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP GENGEMBRE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN BODKINS FOR PASSING ENLARGED SHANKSOF BUTTONS THROUGHCLOTH.

Specilication forming part of Letters Patent No. 44,416, dated September27, 1864.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, PHILIP W. GENGEM- BRE, of Boston, in the county ofSuti'olk'and State ot' Massachu=etts, have made a new and usefulinvention, having reference to the Application of Button-Fastenings toCloth cr Other Material; and I dohereby declare the same to be fullydescrilel in the following specification, and represented in theaccompanying drawings, of which- Figure l denotes a side view, Fig. 1..an edge view, and Fig. 3 a longitudinal section,

ot' applying a button-fastening to a piece of cloth.

My present invention is intended for the speedy accomplishment ot' thefixation of or application lto cloth or other material of thebutton-fastening on which Letters Patent, numbered 41,292 of UnitedStates patents, were granted to me on the 19th day ot' January, A. D.l864.

Fig. 4 represents a section ot' a button and its fastening, of the kindreferred to, as conlbined with a piece ofcloth. In the said figure, Adenotes the body of the button, whose back plate, b, is connected withthe cloth B by the button fastening, which consists not only otatubularpiece otvulcanized india-rubber, l), but a 'metallic catch, C,the said catch being constructed with a head, d, a shank, c, and a smallfoot or projection, e. The spring D encompasses the shank c, and isarranged between the button A and the cloth B, or material to which thebutton-fastening is applied. The shank c enters a slot in the back plateof the button, the said button being subsequently turned around ninetydegrees, so as to connect it with-the fistening, and as a consequence tothe cloth.

For theinsertion of the shank of the fastening in the cloth and in theelastic spring or guard D, I employ an 'implement made substantially asshown in Figs. 1, 2, and 3- that is to say, it consists of a taperingneedle or piercer, E, slit. lengthwise from its head toward its point,and having an cye,f, car-A ried trans ersely across or made within itand close to its base or rear end, such needle or piercer being pointedat its frontend. The

two parts h h oueach side of the slit, should be elastic, so as to becapable of being easily sprung apart from one another, and each may behollowed or grooved lengthwise on its invner surface, in order toreadily admit the shank c and allow the projecting parts of its foot eto enter the eye or eyes f in the two parts h h. The eye or eyes f servewith the toot to so connect the piercer t0 the shank as to enable thepiercer to draw the shank through a piece ot' cloth and a spring, D,when the 1 piercer may be used for the purpose. of the needle ordirector used in my method The mode of using this implement may be thusdescribed: The cloth at the place where itis` to receive thebutton-fastening is to be punctured by the piercer, which, after havingbeen forced nearly its entire -length through the cloth, is to have thetubular spring D pressed on it over its point and so as to encompass thepiercer. the spring also being forced longitudinally on the piercer andclose up to the cloth. Next the catch should have its end or part cinserted between the springs ot' the piercer, and should be pressedagainst the piercer so as to force such piercer entirely through thecloth and beyond the spring D. As the piercer may pass out of thespring, the latter, by its contractile power, will close `on the shankoi' thc catch and hold the catch Iirmly in place within the cloth.

The form of the eye or eyes, as well as that of the slit ot' thepiercers, may be varied as circumstances may require, in order for it toreceive and tit and fasten to the fastening part e 'of the shank c.

With my said implement and mode of using it the butto'n-fastenings canbe applied and fixed to cloth or clothes with greateraccuracy anddispatch, or with much advantage, comparatively speaking. l do not claima piercer having a single notch or recess in its head.

I claim as my invention- The implement or piercer made with the springsor clasps h le, and eye or eyes f, or the equivalent thereof, the samebeing substan tially as and for the purpose specified.

Witnesses: P. W. G-ENGEMBRE.

R'H. EDDY,

F. P. HALE, Jr.

